Comments on: A Convenient Truth

by: JING

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:14:57 +0000

Honestly, as a Chinese, I just don’t like Japanese people at my first sight, simply because I grew up under this culture. However, since I try to be international just like my major, I tell myself not to think that way. Talk to them and understand what they are thinking are more important than just hate them.
So, the result is I met a very nice Japanese girl in my university, and we are good friends since then. So I believe there is good Japanese people, but I still hate the Japanese GOVERNMENT!!!

by: Dave

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 06:27:18 +0000

I know there are interviews with Japanese who participated in the Massacre in the film, but I don’t know if any of them are “good” Japanese. I somehow doubt it. Certainly there were good Japanese at the time and in the world today, but I don’t think many such people remained that way after being molded by the Imperial Military machine. Sure, showing such people would probably help Sino/Japanese relations, but it seems to border on telling a statistical lie in this case.

by: Kevin S.

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:54:20 +0000

I hope there are at least a few Japanese “good guys” in it, like there were in Tokyo Trial. Many Chinese I know make ridiculous statements like, “To be frank, I hate all Japanese people.” In nearly all cases, the people I have met who make these statements personally know no Japanese people. Their ideas are shaped by Chinese media that makes Japanese people out to be completely evil. Since Nanking is sure to be seen widely here in China it can only be a good thing if some of the Japanese in it are seen as being against what their compatriots are doing in China or as victims of circumstance in similar ways to the Chinese victims in Nanjing.